On The Road

Author: Jack Kerouac

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Price : 19.95 NZD
ISBN : 9780140274158
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint : Penguin Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.17
Publication date : 01 September 1998
Dimensions : 181mm X 111mm X 20mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Jack Kerouac
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 813.54
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Description

Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfillment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream.

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Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Productions is producing an adaptation of "On the Road" for the big screen.

Awards

Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.

Author description

Jack Kerouac was born in Massachusetts. He had written his first novel by age eleven and decided to become a writer at seventeen. He called his style 'spontaneous prose' and recorded the life of the American 'traveler' and the experience of the beatgeneration of the 1950s. He was working on his longest novel of all, a surrealistic study of the last ten years of his life, when he died in 1969, aged forty-seven.

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